Good evening all,
                         I have been offline for some time now but have slowly been rebuilding  a TR1 that I purchased off of Ebay. It had been sat in a leaky garage for over 2 years and become overcome by rot and rust. The engine had siezed and all electrics were rotten.
I have now rebuilt the motor (on a tight budget) and starting on the running gear.
I intend to run it as a winter bike this year and then do a fuller more comprehensive rebuild when satisfied that she will run okay.
Found this forum to be of excellent help, please keep it up.
Ride safe
Gary

Well said that man
Thank God for Babel otherwise I think I'd have had to have learn't German and I have enough trouble with English.
It is strange that our German Brother Riders have really taken to this superb machine and we English seem to have reduced it to a has been.

I fell in love with them back before I passed my test and spent many an hour drooling over one in a showroom window. Took over 20 years to finally get one and can't wait to get it on the road.

Gary

Update with a couple of pics. As you can see this is being done on a budget using engine paints left over from other projects.

Once she is up and running I'll keep her on the road for a couple of months and then start a full restoration.
Gary

That picture really underlines the uncanny similarities between our chosen bolide and that god among motorcycles, the Vincent Rapide/Black Shadow.  Not only does the engine appear to be two of the maker's 500cc single's cylinder barrels on a common crankcase (I know that's not actually the case; neither was it for the Vincent, really - the cylinders do, however, look superficially similar to that of the Comet in Vincent's case and the SR500 in the case of the TR1.), but look at that frame! (Or lack thereof.) We have a minimalist spine which connects the engine to the headstock - just like a Vincent; a little subframe to connect the engine to the swinging arm - just like a Vincent and there's a cantilever rear suspension - just like a you-know-what. The well-heeled among the classic fraternity will happily pay what, to me, would be a year's wages for a clapped-out pile of bits in a box purporting to be a Vincent Rapide and yet you can get a running, mot'd TR1 for a couple of week's hard-earned.  I'm not suggesting that a TR1 should be as sought-after, or as desirable as a Vincent, but as a machine to ride, in my opinion it shares a lot of that worthy machine's attributes, with superior reliability added on, and as such is seriously undervalued.